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...NAME IS, EMINEM: Six years ago, hip-hop producer Dr. Dre introduced Snoop Doggy Dogg to the big time with the video Who Am I (What's My Name)?; now he's ushering a new rapper, named Eminem (a.k.a. Marshall Mathers), toward possible stardom. Eminem, who is white, has a video titled My Name Is that's all over MTV (and a new CD, Slim Shady, that's out this week). His video channel-surfs and name-drops, lampooning Bill Clinton and Marilyn Manson. He's not looking for trouble, just laughs...
...depressing as it is to admit, it is a sad fact of life that gangsta rap just isn't what it used to be. Gone are the glory days of Dr Dre's The Chronic, Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle and 2Pac's All Eyez On Me in which rap was a fearless institution that was invigorating because of its intelligent presentation and smart, pulsing sounds...
With 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G. six feet under, Dr. Dre and Wu-Tang Clan brazenly shifting towards hip-hop sounds and stars like Snoop Dogg content to churn out uninspired drivel like "Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told," gangster rap is in danger of becoming little more than innocuous dance music...
...Sold, Not to Be Told have to be such an ugly, venomous affair? Snoop has been in the red-hot center of the hip-hop world for six years. When Snoop was with his old label, the troubled Death Row Records, working with ace producer Dr. Dre, his lyrics were often profane, yes, but at least the music had bounce and life and a sense of almost nihilistic joy. Da Game is a long recitation of familiar gangsterisms--slapping "bitches," giving shoutouts to "niggas," dealing drugs, killing enemies and, of course, getting paid for rapping about...
...example, has been creating experimental R. and B. for two decades. And remember Terence Trent D'Arby? No? Well, he was that guy...never mind. The point is, in the '90s, the face of cool in R. and B. has been the face of a gangsta. Puff Daddy, Dr. Dre, Master P and the like dominate the aesthetic space in black music. Boyz II Men may sell more albums, but when you think of what's hot, what's hip, what's real, what's representative, gangsta rap has symbolized the cutting edge...